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Hi my name is Nora and Welcome to my blog world. This is a nature and birding photo blog about Vancouver Island, B.C. Canada. I am trying to be a birder and I take photos of the birds and scenery I find. I hope you enjoy your time here and please come back again. PHOTOS WILL ENLARGE IF CLICKED. The photos are slide show enabled if you click on them. If you click on the top lighthouse photo it always takes you to the most recent summary list of my postings.

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Baby raccoons are so cute! I found a family of raccoons in Beacon Hill Park a while ago. The mom would bring the whole pack of about six babies to the water for a drink. I put this to black and white for Black and White Weekend. They were very curious about me, and they wanted to stay and stare at me and mom wanted them to drink and to leave. (I was looking for a Tanager, found raccoons).
The mom made many little calls and whistles to her crew of babies, they ignored her and stared at me a lot. There was fresh water for them to drink but they mostly played and climbed trees and stared. The raccoon baby and the deer baby are for the Critter memes. I found this baby deer up island near where we put our trailer in Parksville. The baby deer was not afraid either.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

We went to Cowichan the other day for a drive. Cowichan is from a Coast Salish word that means "land warmed by the sun" and it was really warm that day. There is a nice tourist area of local shops and docks. Also there is a great little museum and long dock.

Sunday, January 18, 2015

This week it is Bears and Birds. This fall I got way to close to a bear that we call Big Pappy near Campbell River.We just named him that as we have seen him so much. I had another bear coming by on the other side of me so the video is very short. And it was quite late in the evening. Not on tripod, hand held so I can move fast. It is best on full screen. He seems to stare directly at me at one point and I was a little worried. I was not in a covered blind or anything, he could see me. You can't crop in on video so it is as close as it was with the lens full out. It shakes a little but overall one of my better captures. I have several more bears to put in sometime. I have about a hundred videos to do. The top shot is not cropped.

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Just a weekend mix of memes and photos. The one above will be good for Weekend Reflections and also for Mandarin Orange Monday. It was taken at Beacon Hill Park and the leaves of the tree behind reflected on the water very nicely. The photo below was also taken at the same park and is a good photo for Mellow Yellow Monday.

Monday, January 05, 2015

My World: I started this new blog on my leukemia, calling it Leukemia Labyrinth or my Leuky Lab. Not getting any visitors at that new blog and Google is not giving me any stats on it as I have no visitors and Google does not add it to search. Trying to drive some traffic over to that blog so I can get on Google search to get started. So this is me asking you to click over there to my new blog for a second or two just to have a look, pleeeeese. This is the link to Leukemia Labyrinth. Any comments would be nice as well but not necessary. I had forgotten how long it takes to get a new blog started up with readers. I am so lucky over here with all the love from my group of bloggers. (above and below pictures from new blog).